Finding Myself

Almost exactly one year ago (literally - it was May 24, 2017) I published a hard, raw, potentially controversial post entitled,
I am a 32-year-old Mom and Here are the Thirteen Reasons Why I Can Relate to Hannah Baker.
I had finished watching the Netflix series for the second time (Ok..maybe it was the third...or fourth?) and felt so, ...

This post - titled, "The Hardest Post I've Ever Written," was originally published on here on
February 24, 2014: on my son's four-month-birthday.
That means, of course, that this was written at exactly four months postpartum, for me. I am re-posting this, today, to give context to some of what is to come; some of what ...

In August, I told my son about the fact that I'd had severe postpartum depression after he was born.
I did not use those words, of course; rather, I told him that "I got a little sad" and he understood it and did not understand it and it was a pretty good balance.
In January, my book came out and I ...

The other day, in this post, I promised that I would blog more. Some of the blog posts will be long and serious, Some will be short, little vignettes. And some will be totally random. Welcome to totally random.
This post is being brought to you by the fact that over the past few days I ...

I thought of something, today. Something that I do not think you know about me:
when I feel most at peace.
If you were ever to ask me this question, I think that my initial, instinctual answer would be something like,
"When my whole family is together under one roof, all safe and accounted for, I feel most ...

As humans, we are often told to listen to our hearts.
We are told to pay attention to our "inner voice" and that its words should reign supreme over all else.
There is an actual movement surrounding a greater effort to pay attention to our feelings, and while this is something that I would ordinarily get behind (and, in ...

(Originally published on postpartum project, as "Why I wrote "Beyond the Baby Blues")
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“If this can help one woman then it is worth it.”
That was my refrain. That was what I said. That was what I typed, even when my hands trembled.
In February of 2014 I made a decision that would change the trajectory of my life ...

Hello! Here I am! I could write about the last couple of weeks, and how much has happened, and everything about the book the book the book, but I think that we could all use a break from the book the book the book.
And I have a promise on which to make good.
On New Year's Eve I ...

Happy New Year's Eve!
2017 is coming to an end and I can already see 2018 peeking in from around the bend.
In all honesty, in many ways, 2017 sucked. We had a huge loss in our family. I was really disappointed by some people and that was hard. Many times, I even cried.
But
2017 was also the most transformative year of my ...

Ok. This is a biggie. Not in the way that some other posts are biggies,
but in a different (and maybe even biggie-er) way.
I have been writing this blog for over seven and a half years.
On it I have shared my innermost thoughts and feelings; my deep secrets; my real-time triumphs and trials.
I have even shared ...